Marina Kovačec

Marina Kovačec
Association
birthday	2nd July 1987
place of birth	Zagreb,  Yugoslavia
Career
society	Sestine Zagreb
Trainer	Tina Cvorig
Admission to the national team	2003
Debut in the European Cup / IBU Cup	2007
Debut in the World Cup	2008
status	active
World Cup balance

Marina Kovačec (born July 2, 1987 in Zagreb ) is a Croatian biathlete .

The student Marina Kovačec from the Sestine Zagreb association is trained by the former biathlete Tina Cvorig. She has been running biathlon since 2003 and has been a member of the Croatian national team since then. In the same year she contested her first races as part of the Junior European Cup in Ridanna . In 2004 she started for the first time at the Junior World Championships in Haute-Maurienne . There, rank 52 in the pursuit was her best result. For the second time she started at a Junior World Championship in Presque Isle in 2006 and was 44th in the singles and ninth in relay. Kovačec achieved similar placements at the European Junior Championships of the year in Langdorf . The Junior World Championships 2007 in Martell and 2008 in Ruhpolding did not bring any improvements. With 26th place in individual and sprint as well as 22nd in the pursuit, the young Croatian achieved quite good results at the Junior European Championships 2007 in Bansko , as well as 27th in the pursuit of Nové Město na Moravě in 2008. Until 2007, she continued to compete of the Junior European Cup. In 2005, a 22nd place in a sprint race in Obertilliach was the best result.

Since 2007, Kovačec has also competed with adults. She made her debut in the European Biathlon Cup in 2007 in a sprint in Ridnaun, where she was 18th, in the pursuit that followed she was able to improve by one place. The Croatian achieved even better results as seventh in the sprint and eighth in the pursuit in the same year in Bansko, albeit in a poorly filled European Cup. The high point in Kovačec's young career so far is the start of two races at the 2008 Biathlon World Championships in Östersund . She finished 84th in the individual and 92nd in the sprint.

Biathlon World Cup placements

The table shows all placements (depending on the year, including the Olympic Games and World Championships).

• 1st - 3rd Place: Number of podium placements
• Top 10: Number of placements in the top ten (including podium)
• Points ranks: Number of placements within the point ranks (including podium and top 10)
• Starts: Number of races run in the respective discipline

placement	singles	sprint	persecution	Mass start	Season	total
1st place
2nd place
3rd place
Top 10
Scoring					3	3
Starts	4th	6th			3	13
Status: after the 2009/2010 season

Web links

• Marina Kovačec in the database of the IBU (English)